Doug Lemov's field notes

Some of my readers will remember Michael Laser. He wrote a guest blog here a few years ago about the issue of chronically poor student writing at the college level. He’s been working on a system to develop and improve his students’ writing and–music to our ears–he’s focused on the foundational skill of sentence craft. He…

We love the technique Art of the Sentence. By asking students to write a single sentence- ideally by asking them to write that sentence about some rich and engaging area of content- we teach them to master the art of syntactic control- the ability to use diverse tools to express complex ideas and this is extremely…

Yesterday I shared Maggie Johnson’s thoughts about a great bit of writing instruction in Gabby Woolf’s classroom. The connection to the amazing sentence-development work of Judith Hochman also struck my colleague John Costello. He reflects further on it in this guest post: Here at TLaC towers we love observing teachers who focus on sentence-craft to build…

We’ve been thinking a lot about writing these days- nothing new there. But watching a lesson from King Solomon Academy’s Gabby Woolf really got our own Maggie Johnson reflecting. She shared this post. This morning during our weekly Video Review Meeting, we watched a clip of our very own TLaC Fellow, and one of London’s…

The “Stack Audit” is one of my favorite tools teachers and leaders can use to study and learn from their work with students. I describe it more fully here but the gist of it is: You gather as many examples as you can of a specific type of work (the Do Nows or Exit Tickets given…

Welcome to Field Notes. I've named this blog to emphasize the idea that just about everything in my books is someone else's brilliant idea. My idea was just to write it down. I like the role of the observer and think there's a lot of power in it. Think about itthere isn't a problem in teaching or learning that someone somewhere hasn't solved. We just need to find them and take some field notes. So, join me here for discussion and observations related to Teach Like a Champion, Practice Perfect, and whatever else fits under the banner of teaching and practice.

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